What are you attempting to do? This was designed to be less grindy than bonemealing grass. Just come up, right click a few grass blocks, get a few seeds, and then let the grass re-grow.
I have a 7x7 area of grass near my mob dropper and when I did my bonemealing for first shot, I ended up with about 2 double chests (1.5 really) of stuff. I'd say ALL the saplings and raw stuff. took about 5 stacks I think of bonemeal and about 10 minutes.
Same area. have done about 4-5 passes, first 2-3 were replanted with my 2 stacks of grass seeds so I did all the grass. got 6 seeds with a couple dups for half of them. All in all, I've gotten about 12-15 different types of seeds (no lettuce) but each time I have to wait about 10-15 mins real time in between to let it grow back. This is grindy. Bonemealing is grindish. But, it's something you do like once. go through, get your starter seeds, don't cheat and just setup AA/bonemeal to get lots of juicable stuff, etc. like I did in AGskies once, and then never return. I am now fighting RNG just to get some lettuce seeds. Only one I'm really caring for so I can work up to my mcdonalds happy meals.
On a side note, I almost died and I don't know how. I built under the shuttle about 4 levels, the only one I'm using right now is the one right below tho. I've walled off enough so that I'm pretty much smack center of the base and no spots for creatures to come in. I'm using elevators (important) to get to each level. Thus, no mob spawns below ground level cause of lights, etc... Mob spawner is a little far away (close enough that I can hear it in distance). I was in a chest depositing food stuff and boom, explosion. character was thrown upwards from explosion and took 3/4 of my hearts away. wtf? are creepers mating with endermen and getting endercreepers? Default setup from 1.1.1 with no extra mods and no extra enabled, so wierd....
Lastly, I am having a blast. My hat off to you sir. I've been playing since 1.03 and this keeps on getting better and better. please don't die or anything. I don't know what I'd do ....[DOUBLEPOST=1406294563][/DOUBLEPOST]
It's fine for food. If you only want a few specific seeds, then you'll have to grind away, but nothing wrong with that if you're being picky. The only thing I think that is too grindy is trying to get red/yellow flowers for those first dyes. I wish there was just a quest to hand in some bonemeal, 1 diamond & 1 emerald to get the dyes if we wanted to avoid the grinding.
I also wish there was something other then grass seeds to make the pneumatic seeds with. Maybe the dye and any 8 pneumatic seeds around it to make that pneumatic seed?
1st. I got 3 flowers 4 roses from my first batch of bonemealing (ha!).
2nd. oh god grass seeds. I used up 2 stacks of them to try getting lettuce. oh noes. oh noes....
